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    Panini America Inks New York Rangers Top Draft Pick and Finnish Hockey Star Kaapo Kakko to Exclusive

    Panini America, the world’s largest licensed sports and entertainment collectibles company and the exclusive trading card manufacturer of the NFL, NFLPA, NBA, NBA Players, College athletics and NASCAR, announced today that it has signed Finnish hockey star Kaapo Kakko to an exclusive autograph trading card agreement. As a result of the unique partnership, Panini America will produce the only autograph Rookie Cards of Kakko, selected No. 2 overall by the New York Rangers in the 2019 NHL Draft.

    Many of those cards will be available to fans and collectors directly through the company’s online store, where Kakko’s cards will be featured in some of Panini’s most compelling brands. In addition, Kakko’s cards will be featured on Panini’s Instant platform (a platform designed to celebrate real-time performances and milestones by making an individual player’s trading card from that moment available in real-time and for 24 hours) or the Panini Direct app and will chronicle Kakko’s entire rookie season.

    https://www.paniniamerica.net/blog.h...ard-agreement/

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    What a bunch of crap. This nonsense is asinine and really ruining the hobby
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    Was waiting for this to become "officially" announced by Panini.
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    I don't blame Panini. UD has begun to really spew overpriced garbage for the past few years, they need some competition.

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    Upper Deck should have thought about this when they signed LeBron and Ben Simmons...

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    It is all part of the business.

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    Business is business, and no doubt getting Kakko will help out Panini's numbers with the hockey market collectors while also having a bit of an impact on UD's 2019-20 plans. Rangers are always a popular team, Finnish players always get a good amount of hobby love, so good score for Panini. Still not a fan of the practice in general but I understand why it happens.
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    As a Rangers fan, this sucks. I am disappointed that Upper Deck let this happen.

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    As a Rangers fan, this sucks. I am disappointed that Upper Deck let this happen.

    Let's clear this up immediately, because this applies in all situations where a player signs an exclusive - it is the PLAYER's decision. Upper Deck can't force any player to sign a deal with them, nor they can prevent any player from not signing with them or signing with another entity. Blaming UD says that Kakko has no agency in this decision; guess who's name is on the contract with Panini? He/his agent have every right to listen to offers and to sign with whichever company they like...or (as with Dahlin) not sign.

    Unless something gets written into the NHLPA that players can only sign autograph/memorabilia/merchandise deals with licensees of the NHL/NHLPA, this will continue to happen.

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    Let's clear this up immediately, because this applies in all situations where a player signs an exclusive - it is the PLAYER's decision. Upper Deck can't force any player to sign a deal with them, nor they can prevent any player from not signing with them or signing with another entity. Blaming UD says that Kakko has no agency in this decision; guess who's name is on the contract with Panini? He/his agent have every right to listen to offers and to sign with whichever company they like...or (as with Dahlin) not sign.

    Unless something gets written into the NHLPA that players can only sign autograph/memorabilia/merchandise deals with licensees of the NHL/NHLPA, this will continue to happen.

    This is very true, whether we as collectors like it or not. The player and their representatives hold the cards in these scenarios. The card companies just have to wait and see if their offer will hold up over the other companies. Usually, Upper Deck has no problems securing players, but like we've seen in the past it isn't always a slam dunk.

    In this case, Panini won the Kakko sweepstakes.

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